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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-17

TIE close calculators estimate
that all Of $491, 100000 were re-
presented at the great Robert Gar
rett ball in Baltimore on Tuesday
night. - eS'G'
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-17

As q manual Of curious and Interest
ing information, this book has no equal.
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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-17
THE PLACE TO BUY GROCERIES.
Holiday Gifts.

II you think Of n aking a present OF a
book to your wife or sweetheart. lover
OF friend, you win not find anything
more instructive and amusing than the
two books:
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-17

Tbs Prohibition party of New
Jersey is organizing stock COM
pany to publish number of news
papers. This company will have its
headquarters in Newark, where q
publishing house viii be maintained.
The company will publish one paper
each in thirteen counties. A corps
Of temperance writer's will furnish
editorial articles for each paper,
and each one will have local editor
and business manager who viii
work under the direction of the
head officers Of the company. This
is . large undertaking with doubt
fnl utility. One good newspaper
edited with marked care and ability
will exert more influence than q
dozen milk and water, trashy ones.
Take for example the Baltimore
Sun. 1ahat paper exercises more
influence over the people Of Mary
land than all tho weekly papers
published il the Stale.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-17

THE business heretofore conducted by
G.. FELDMEYER, on Carroll stteet,
will hereafter be carried on by
w. HI. FeIdImeyer,
who will be pleased to see all former pat
rons, as well as new ones Guaranteeing
FIRST CLASS WORK.
in every undertaking or no charge.
DAYTONS, WAGONS, CARTS, CUT
TIERS, &C., built to order
Blacksmithing IN General,
Horseshoeing IN Particular.
eT Prices to suit the times.
j4-tfl w. II. FELDMEYER.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-17

They are shipping pig iron from
Alabama to New York, instead OF
cotton.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-17
ROBT. E. STRANGE,
Painter and Paper Ranga
No. IS Prince George st.
ANNAPOLIS, MD.

PARTICULAR attention given ~
IL per Hanging, Painting, Grainlng, =
In all It's branches. Orders from tneos
try solicited and promptly ATTENDED y y.
nHw- a n saorL 04GHrGoatesd TO cine s6t'0Se-
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26
A Curious Clock.

Another King Of Spain came tt
ieneva to see a clock which had been
made by Droz. a merchant Of thai
city. Upon the clock we're seated a
shepherd, q negro and q dog. As
tho hour was struck the shepherd
played upon his flute and the dog
played gently at his feet. But, whcr
the King reached forth TO touch an
apple that hung from a tree under
which -ihe shepherd rested. the dog
flew at him and barked so furiously
that a live dog answered him. and
the party left in haste. vcnturing te
return, one Of the courtiers asked the
negro in Spanish what time 1t was.
There was nc reply; but, when the
question was repeated in French, an
answer was given. This frightened
tho courtier, who rcjoincd his com.
panions. and all Of thom voted that
tho clock wps tho work Of the evil
one. - UuioersaI Tinker.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26
A r AND housEuo,n

!. Reaches may be kept out =,
house by simply pairing a ia, " any
cucumbers, not very thin. and green
the parings cut side up over tho , ni.a
they frequent. They arc fond 81 pi' -.
sap Of the cucumber, and in suct II .l |.
will be killed by the Ito them, noissI
GUS stuff. Repeat the remedy ~ Ev., .a
or three nights, or as often as ON, 'Ne
them appear. ~! %
-Graham Biscuit. Three ems =,
graham flour. ono cup Of whoa, 'p a..
two large teaspoons Of baking no ava..
well mixed with the flour, ruh il ..s1
large tablespoons of butter. a r .so
salt, half a cup Of sugar, one ba s
egg, and enough sweet milk (ooldl ~
make a soft dough, roll out, cnt' WIN
biscuit cutter and bake immediatelv.~
Boston Budget.
-%Fricassee of Eggs,-Take som.
hard-boiled eggs, cut them into ou,.'
ters' yelks and whites. Heat som.
gravy seasoned with shred lemon nes,
parsley, thyme and grated nutmer
Put in the eggs together with a piece
Of butter rolled in flour; shake Il
gently over the fire till properlv
thiokened; garnish with yelks Of hard.
boiled eggs. chopped small. Boston
Budget.
Grass lands, as a rule, are utterly
neglected by our small farmers. NJ
attention is paid to draining in fall and
winter. and no mulching or attempted
improvements. As soon as the warm
weather approaches, sheep and cows
are turned in to feed on the Young
blades. and if the cows give milk, and
the lambs grow fairly we'll for the
butcher. that ends the mattcr.-M Y.
Witness.
Maple Sugar Cake. Two eggs, one
cup of white sugar, one-half cup Of
sweet milk, one-fourth cup Of butter,
one and one-half cups Of flour, and one
and one.half teaspoonfuls of baking
powder ; bake in a moderate oven in
jelly pans about Il inch deep. To
prepare the sugar boil two cups Of
maple sugar in one-half cup of water
till it wakes in cold water, then add tho
beaten white Of one egg, stirring
brisk)y until cool enough to spread,
put between the layers, and over the
Top and sides if you wish .--HouscaoM.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26
ALASKA MASTODONS.
Indians Who Claim to Have Seer Living
Specimens.

tnOl1ns WhO claim to Have Seen Living
o., Specimens.
1t is known that enormous hairy elc-
plants or mastodons once lived in ST.
IBERIA and Alaska. Not only .arc their
remains abundant, but the OF
animals preserved in prehistoric ice
bergs have been recovered and it is
from these models that naturalists have
produced the interesting %fabrications
such as that exhibited here at the late
Worlds Exposition. In the period
when these animals lived there the
climate was much warmer that at pres
ent, as then the Mississippi valley was
in all probability a vast estuary extend
ing to the Arctic Ocean, and through it
the Gulf stream, which now flows out
through the straits of Florida, then
found its heated waters mitigating the
polar climate as it now does that of
England. When the continent was
lifted above the waters the sources of
heat were then Withdrawn, and the
northern regious were locked in ice, a
catastrophe which the hairy elephants
could not survive.
In the face of this suggestions
science, some miners who have been
prospecting in Alaska have returned to
San Francisco and reported that the
Stickene river Indians declare that the
mastodon still lives there and had
been seen by them. One Of the
Indians said that while hunting
one day in that unknown Sec
ton he came across an immense
track sunk to a depth of several inches
In moss. It much rcserhbled an ele-
plants track, but was larger around
than a barrel. The Indian followed up
this curious track, which to all appear
ances was very fresh, tracking from
n immense stride to another o dis.
lance Of some miles, when he came in
full view Of his game. The hunter
gave n look. then turned and fed.
These Indians rs q rule arc the brayest
hunters. With no other weapon than
their spear they will attack and kill q
grizsly. but the immense proportions
Of this new style Of game both startled
and filled the hunter, brave as no was,
with great fear. He described it as
looking larger than Post Trader Har-
pcr's store. with great shining, yellow
ish tusks and q mouth large enough to
swallow him in u single gulp. He said
the animal was doubtless similar to
those which furnished the immense
bones scattered " that section.
Since the introduction Of American
whisky into Alaska the poor savagss
will soon be placed into a condition to
zee all sorts Of monsters. One thing ID
certain--thero arc no snakes there
N. O. Hcayune.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26
GRINDERS
a Fatal Disease Caused By the Inhslaeioe
of Metal Dust.

Dr.. Canedy, of Shelburne Falls,
/ Mass, recently read a paper before the
franklin District Medical Society on
grinders consumption, being, the re-
suits of his observations on the
grinders employed by a cutlery COM
pany at that place, numbering, on an
average, forty men and boys for the
past twenty-five years. During the ten
years Just ended, twenty-three grinders
have died with chronic disease Of the
air-passages, and three are now cor.
fined to the house with similar affec-
tons, and five in whom the disease has
made considerable progress are still at
work in the cutlery. OF all the occu-
pations in which the workers are COM
PEELED to inhale an atmosphere loaded
with irritating dust, as coal-mining and
iron and metal polishing, none seems
more certain or fatal in its effects than
grinding. Investigations made at
Sheffield, Eng, fix the average period
which grinders a work at thirteen
years. The first symptom which mani
tests itself is cough, soon followed by
shortness of breath upon excrtion. as
walking uphill. During all this time
All inflammatory process is going on
in the lung, which results in
a gangrenous or purulcnt con-
dition; the patient having fever,
and often a terrible cough. During
this attack the patient is confined to
bed from ten to twenty weeks. After
six weeks an abscess forms in the lung.
and, when the pus is expectorated, I'M
provement begins. The progress of
some cases is exceedingly slow; some
of the patients living ten years or more,
after being compelled to leave the shop
by their cough, most of the time in
chronic invalidism, and dying at last
from the exhaustion consequent upon
pulmonary disease.
In spite Of all treatment. the inevita-
BILE tendency of the disease seems to be
toward a fatal termination, and DR..
Canedy states that he has never seer
any recovcrics. The picture which is
given us in this paper is a most dis
tressing one; and it would seem that
attention should be paid to tho
subject by those in power. The i'm.
provements which have been made in
unhealthy trades by the substitution of
sanitary for unsanitary conditions have
been so marked that some of them can
certainly be applied to the reduction of
the great suffering and mortality among
The cutlery grinders. The State Board
Of Health can here doubtless find an
opportunity to do more good work in a
field in which it has SO long and SO well
labored. Science.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26
ISLAND.
A Fertile Isle Which Has Been the Cause
Of Much COntrOvcrsy,

Commander Ullman, retired office,
of tho Hungarian army, who is now
travelling in this country, is tho owner
of the Tortugas Island. about which
the Haytian and British Governments
had quite a controversy some time
ago. Toriugas Island is considered
valuable for n naval station, as it has
the best advantages for the large
ships Of war and several natural har.
bors. Great Britain, it was said,
wanted the island for this purpose,
and the United States was also inter.
estcd in it for this reason. The British
Government threatened to seize the
island on account of n claim Of 81, 000..
600, but this was settled by tho pay.
ment of $3.50. 600. The Haytian Gov.
eminent owned the island, and was in
need of funds. When they were
pressed for the claim they speedily
raised the money in Paris, and the
next thing we hear is that the island
was purchased by Commander Ull.
mann. lie regards his purchase as a
valuable one, ms It commands m easy
mode Of travel to the Panama Canal.
Tho new owner Of tho island Is anxious
for the United States 10 assume the
dominion Of the island. He has Offer
cd tho island to this Government on
very easy terms. The island Is very
fertile, and has on 1t large tracts d
timber land. 1t win DO a very vnlun-
bic purchase II the United Stf.tos Gov.
ernaient buys II. --Dcmoresga Monthly.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26

According to the London Daily
News. an Edinburgh music teacher
claims to have invented q so.callcd
resonator for augmonting the power
Of the voice. 1t Is a mechanical con.
trivance which is arranged to ct into
the palate. The instrument has Doc n
submitted to Prot. Tyndall for exam
nation,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26

Ali third and fourth-class railway
restaurants In Prussia are required BY
law to provide q cup Of good hot col.
Toe. without milk or sugar. for five
pfcnnigs (about one and 4 quarter
,ents), and tho ssma With milk o. sugar
!. d0uhla I'M pyi1A
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26

-Smith-"That paragraph in ths
Daily HotOlcr touched you up rather
severely yesterday, Brown" Brown
20, yes; l don't mind that sort Of
thing, however. The world will always
contain fools, you know" Il suppose
20. Il thcro were no fools thers
wouldn't be any thing tor those fellow
70 write about, I supposA"-BiNg'
hatasos R~epHblScdw. J, !,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26
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NMAmmn. 0iir GnnA..

Mamma. our Sunday school
teacher says that every hair Of our
heads Is numbered. II amt true, il
itp" Certainly 1t Is, my dear. The
Bible tells rs that" .Vvcll. then"
said Bobby, singing out 4 hair from
MS curly locks, ''what number do von
suppose that isp" Mamma oivos 4 ~
Golden Ddvs. ~
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26

Rail fences are expressive on ~
ecunt y Tie ground thsy osg6ryau
ths woods they protect s,s @ \ s'
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26
TO Cure Kicking Cows.

We have seen various devices recon-.
meAded tor dc euro Of kicking cows
and h%citgrs, Dot the best we ever tried
u to put a rope around the horns and
:p over q beam or the top Of the stan.
chion drawing it sufficiently tight tc
raise the head AS high rs possible. Thi!
has the effect TO cause Il down arch
ing Of Tie spine at the loins and the
animal Finds it impossible TO kick. The
excellence Of ibis method lies in the
fact that it y quickly applied, and
farther, not being applied to the legs
the COW has no chance to associate the
means of prevention with her desire
TO kick. This latter fact often prevails
rs we have SHOWN COWS that would
only remain quiet when a rope or
strap was put about their legs
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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-25

WE WILL FORGET EVERYTHING.
fancy that you said or that l did since the
time when you came in wounded and found
that had tainted"
Quite So" said John; II renounce them
all"
1--WE renounce them all" she corrected, and
gave solemn little nod of her head and
sighed, and thus they ratified that audacious
compact of oblivion.
But it was lie, and they both knew that
it was lie If love had existed before, was
there anything in his helplessness and her
long and tender care to make it lesss Alas!
no; rather was their companionship the more
perfect and their sympathy the more COM
plete. "Propinquity, sir; propInquity,' as
the wise man said; we know the evils of it,
From that day forward they forgot that
scene in the sitting room of 1.-THE Palatial, "
when jess put out her strength and John
bent and broke before it like rush before the
wind Surely it was a part of the delirium!
They forgot that now, alasl they loved each
other with a love that did but gather force
from its despair. They talked of Bessie, and
of Johns marriage, and discussed Jess plans
for going to Europe, just as though these
were not matters of spiritual life and death
to each of them In short, however they
might for one brief moment have gone as
tray, now, to their honor be it said, they fol
lowed the path of duty with unflinching
feet, nor did they cry when the stones cut
them.
But it was all living lie, and they knew
it. For between them stood the irrevocable
Past, who for good or evil had bound them
together in his unchangins bonds, and with
cords that could not be broken.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-25

be worth iiving What thing Is powerl
What thing it is to be able to destroyi Take
that Englishman, my rival: to-day be Is well
and strong; in three days he will be gone ut
terly, and II shall have sent him away.
That is power But when the time comes
that have only to stretch out my hand
to send thousands after him!-that will be
absolute power; ard then with Bessie shall
be happy"
And SO he dreamed on for an hour or more,
till at last the fumes of his untutored imagina-
ton actually drowned his reason in spiritual
intoxication. Picture after picture rose and
unrolled itself before bis minds eye. He saw
himself as president addressing the volksraad
and compelling it to his will He saw him.
self, the supreme general of q great host, de-
feating the forces of England with awful
carnage and driving them before him, ay, he
even selected the hattie ground on the slopes
of the Biggarsgerg in Natal Then he saw
himself again sweeping the natives out of
South Africa with the unrelenting bosom of
his might and ruling unquestioned over sub
missive people. And, last of all, he saw some
thing glittering at his feet-it was CROWN
This was the climax Of his intoxication.
Then there came an anticlimax. The rich
imagination which had been leading him on
as a gaudy butterfly does child, suddenly
changed color and dropped to earth; and then
rose up in his mind the memory of the gen
erals words: God sets a limit to a mans
doings II he is going too far God kills him"
The butterfly had settled on coffinl
ITO he continued
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-25
"What do Won mean. nepbev.r he asked.

"What do you mean, nephewr he asked.
"I-ah.-I mean nothing. was only
speaking a word Of warning to you as
friend have heard things said about you
byn-and he dropped his voice and whispered
a name at the sound of which poor Hans
turned whittier than ever.
"Well,n went on his tormentor, when he
had sufficiently enjoyed his terror, what
sort Of terms did you make in Pictorial"
ooh. good, nephew, good, ? he gabbled, de-
lighted to get on fresh subject. ~ found
the Englishmen supple as a tanned skin.
They viii give up their twelve prisoners for
our four. The men are to be in by 10 to-mor-
row. ! told their commandant about Laing's
Mex and fngogo, and he would not believe
me- He thought lied like himself. They
are getting hungry there now. I saw a
Hottentot knew there, and be told me that
their bones were beginning to show
sThey will be through the skin before long,
muttered Frank @Well, here we are at the
house. The general is there. He has Just
come up from Heidelberg, and you can make
your report to him Did you find out about
the Englishman-Capt. Mel! Is it true that
he is dead@
"No, he is not dead By the way, met
ON Crofts niece-the dark one. She is shut
up there with the captain, and she begged me
to try and get them pass to go home. OF
course told her that it was nonsense, and
that they must stop and starve with the
others"
Muller, who had been listening 10 this last
piece of information with intense interest,
suddenly checked his horse and answered:
"Did you? Thenyou are bigger fool than
I thought you. Who gave you authority to
decide whether they should have pass Oh
not!o
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-25

HE sCRAwLED HIS BIG, COARSE SIGNATURE
pen to Jess, Bessie viii take Mooifoutein, and
that is worth having. Not that want more
land; have enough. Yes, I will marry her.
1t would serve her right il / didn't;
but, after all, marriage is more respect
able, and also one has more hold of
wife. Nobody will interfere for her. Then
she will be of use to me by and by, for a
beautiful woman is q power even among
these fellow countrymen of mine, If only a
man knows how 60 bait his lines with her.
Yes, shall marry her. Bahl that is the way
to win a woman-by capture; and. what is
more, they like it. 1t makes her worth win
ming, too 1t will be courtship of blood
Well, the kisses will be the sweeter, and in
the end she will love me the more for what /
have dared for her. So, Frank Muller, sol
Ten years ago you said to yourself: There
are three things worth having in the world
first, wealth; second, women, if they take
your fancy, or, better still, one woman if
you desire her above all others; third,
power Now, you have got the wealth, for
one way and another you are the richest
man in the Transvaal. In a weeks time you
will have the woman you love, and who il
sweeter to you than all the world besides. In
five years time you will have the power
absolute power. That old man is clever; he
viii be president But am cleversr. ]
shall soon take his seat, thus"-and be rose
and seated himself in the generals chair
"and he will go down a step and take mine.
Ay. and then l will reign My tongue shall
be honey and my hand iron will pass
over the land like storm. / will drive the
English out with the help Of the Kafiirs, and
then will kill the Kaffirs and take their land
Ahir-and his eyes flashed and his nostrils d.
lated Is he said II te himsslf-@thsn life will
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-25
CHAPTER XIX

HANS CoETZEE COMES TO PRETORIA
When once he had taken the turn, Johns
recovery was rapid. Naturally of vigorous
constitution, when the artery had fairly
united he soon made up for the great loss of
blood which he had undergone, and little
more than a month from the date of his
wound was, physically, almost as good man
as ever
One morning-it was the Goth of March
jess and he were sitting in "The Palatialn
garden john was living in a long cane deck
chair that jess had borrowed OF stolen out of
one of the deserted houses, and smoking a
pipe.
They sat in silence; John putting away at
his pipe, and jess, her work-one of his socks
lying idly upon her knees, with her hands
clasped over it and her eyes fixed upon the
lights and shadows that played with broad
fingers upon the wooded slopes beyond
John finished his pipe, and, although she
did not know it, was watching her face,
which, now that she was off her guard, was
no longer impassive, but seemed to mirror
the tender and glorious hope that WINS float
ing through her mind. Her lips were slightly
parted, and her wide eyes were full of soft,
strange light, while on the whole counter
ance was a look of eager thought and spiritu-
allied desire such as he had known portrayed
in ancient masterpieces upon the face of the
virgin mother. jess was not, except as re-
CARDS her eyes and hair, even good looking
person. But at that moment John thought
that her face was touched with a diviner
beauty than he had yet seen ON the face OF
woman. II thrilled him and appealed to him,
not as Bessie's beauty had appealed, but to
that other side of his nature, of which jess
alone could turn the key. Her face was more
like the face of a spirit than human beings,
and it almost frightened him to see it
"Jess, 4" he said at last, what are you think
ing Off
She started, and her face resumed its
normal air. 1t was as though mask had
been suddenly set upon it.
"Why do you askr she said
because | want to know. l never saw
you look like that BEFORE
She laughed little.
"You would think me foolish if told you
what was thinking about. Never mind, il
has gone wherever thoughts go. / will tel
you what 1 am thinking about now, which
is--that it is about time we got out of this
place. My uncle and Bessie will be half dis
tractedn
"We've had more than two months of |.
now. The relieving column can't be far of, y
suggested John; for these foolish people in
Pretoria labored under firm belief that one
fine morning they would be gratifed with
the sight of the light dancing down long
line of British hayonets, and Of Beers eyapor.